Medvedev’s fury made itself felt on his coach: he yelled at him in the middle of the final against Hurkacz and the coach left the stadium

Russian Daniil Medvedev has not finished finding his way to success this 2022 season. An interesting contrast because he is at the top of the world rankings, but this Sunday he accumulated his third defeat at the end of the year: the Australian Opena week ago against the Dutch stranger Tim Van Rijthoven and now in front of the Polo Hubert Hurkacz in the final game of The ATP 500 from Halle.

It could be an extra result for the Muscovite, but a very strange situation would have happened to be a top tennis player: Medvedev lost a point at the beginning of the second set, he looked at the bench where his coach was standing Gilles Cervara and gave him a cry that rang out on the stage.

It wasn’t a second before Cervara got up from his chair, grabbed his bag and headed for the exit. A passerby even helped him open the door. Unusual.

Later the Russian he apologized to his wife Daria because she too was in the cubicle of the team, sitting right behind Cervara, so she was a direct witness to the wrath of the number 1 in the world.

“Daria, thank you very much for this week. Sometimes it is not easy to be with me on the pitch, but I hope next time it will be easier and much better. Thank you very much to you (spectators) too, sorry for not making this match more long and interesting “he complained during the awards ceremony.

Later, of course, Hubert Hurkacz managed to take advantage of that desperation to add his fifth ATP title: in 2019 he won Winston Salem and last year Delray Beach, Masters 1,000 in Miami and Metz, also on hard surface.

Hurkacz, who will be top ten In Monday’s ranking update, it was 4-0 at the start of the duel. A difference too big for anyone and that Medvedev was unable to channel. In the second the Russian loses the kick-off. He did not waste the Wrocław player, who always remained safe with a serve that he did not lose and ended the victory.